Chris Christie Slams 'Some Of The Really Awful People Inside The White House'

In an interview with the New York Times, Christie defended White House counselorKellyanne Conwayby attacking her coworkers.

“She’s gotten a bad rap at times,” he told the newspaper. “But I think that’s because of some of the really awful people inside the White House who have been trying to hurt her, as opposed to anything the press came up with on its own.”

In a separate interview, he also said White House advisors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner ― Trump’s daughter and son-in-law ― might be fired by now in any other administration.

“In a normal situation,you might terminate a staff memberfor that reason. [It] becomes a lot more difficult if you’re going to be sitting at Thanksgiving dinner with that person. And so for Jared and for Ivanka and for all the other members of the family we were involved in one way or the other, I think everybody’s got to focus on what’s best for the president.”